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SOCIAL MEDIA: #GONAVY #BEATARMY Twitter .............................. @NavyAthletics and @NavyFB 2020 NAVY FOOTBALL Facebook .......................................................NavyAthletics Instagram ......................... @NavyAthletics and @NavyFB GAME 7 // NAVY AT #22 SMU SATURDAY, OCT. 31 | 7:30 PM ET // 6:30 PM CT | ESPN2 | DALLAS, TEXAS | FORD STADIUM NAVY SCHEDULE NAVY MIDSHIPMEN 3-3 / 3-1 AMERICAN ATHLETIC CONFERENCE SMU MUSTANGS 3-3, 3-1 AAC 5-1, 2-1 AAC Date Opponent Time / Result TV 9-7 BYU L, 55-3 ESPN Head Coach Ken Niumatalolo (Hawai’i ‘89) Head Coach Sonny Dykes (Texas Tech ‘93) 9-19 at Tulane + W, 27-24 ABC Career Record 101-63, 13th year Career Record 61-57, 10th year 10-3 at Air Force L, 40-7 CBS SN Navy Record 101-63, 13th year School Record 20-12, 3rd year 10-10 Temple + W, 31-29 CBS SN Last Game 10-24 // lost to Houston, 37-21 Last Game 10-24 // lost to Cincinnati, 42-13 10-17 at East Carolina + W, 27-23 ESPN2 Next Game 11-7 // Tulsa // 12:00 pm Next Game 11-5 // at Temple // 7:30 pm 10-24 Houston + L, 37-21 CBS SN Streak Lost 1 Streak Lost 1 10-31 AT SMU + 7:30 PM ESPN2 Ranking (AP / Coaches) NR / NR Ranking (AP / Coaches) 22 / 23 11-7 Tulsa + 12:00 pm CBS SN 11-14 Memphis + TBA TBA Team Statistics Navy Opp. Team Statistics SMU Opp. 11-21 at USF + TBA TBA Points / Game 19.3 34.7 Points / Game 37.7 28.2 12-12/19 (To be determined no earlier than 11-1) First Downs 85 138 First Downs 151 127 AAC Championship Game TBA ABC / ESPN Rushing Yards / Game 186.3 242.5 Rushing Yards / Game 182.5 194.2 12-12 at Army 3:00 PM CBS Passing Yards / Game 101.8 184.5 Passing Yards / Game 335.2 218.5 All times Eastern Total Offense / Game 288.2 427.0 Total Offense / Game 517.7 412.7 + American Athletic Conference Opponent Fumbles - Lost 5-3 7-3 Fumbles - Lost 8-4 13-6 Penalties / Pen. Yards / Game 26 / 43.0 25 / 34.2 Penalties - Pen. Yards / Game 41 / 61.2 48 / 71.2 THE SERIES Time of Possession / Game 29:48 30:12 Time of Possession / Game 30:51 29:09 Navy - SMU Series Navy leads, 13-8 Streak Navy, 1 game Individual Leaders Individual Leaders Last Meeting 11-23-2019, Navy 35-28 RUSHING ATT NET AVG TD YPG RUSHING ATT NET AVG TD YPG Niumatalolo vs. SMU 8-1 Nelson Smith 66 392 6.0 6 65.5 Ulysses Bentley IV 90 546 6.1 8 91.0 Dykes vs. Navy 1-2 (0-1 at La. Tech) Jamale Carothers 82 326 4.0 2 54.3 TJ McDaniel 60 297 4.9 1 74.2 GAME DAY MULTIMEDIA PASSING C-A-I PCT YDS TD YPG PASSING C-A-I PCT YDS TD YPG TELEVISION // ESPN2 Dalen Morris 23-39-2 59.0 439 3 87.8 Shane Buechele 142-221-3 64.3 1926 13 321.0 Play-by-Play Anish Shroff Analyst Tom Luginbill RECEIVING REC YDS AVG TD YPG RECEIVING REC YDS AVG TD YPG Sideline Ian Fitzsimmons Mychal Cooper 8 146 18.2 1 24.3 Rashee Rice 29 475 16.4 2 79,2 Mark Walker 6 95 15.8 0 15.8 Danny Gray 23 342 14.9 4 57.0 RADIO // NAVY RADIO NETWORK DEFENSE U-A-TT TFL SCK INT FR/FF DEFENSE U-A-TT TFL SCK INT FR/FF Play-by-Play Pete Medhurst Diego Fagot 25-25=50 8.5 3 0 0/0 Delano Robinson 32-12=44 2.0 2.0 0 0/0 Analyst Joe Miller Kevin Brennan 25-22=47 0.5 0 0 0/0 Richard McBryde 27-5=32 5.0 1.0 0 0/0 Sideline Keith Mills Studio Scott Wykoff SETTING THE STAGE • WBAL 1090 AM / 101.5 FM (Baltimore) • Navy and #22 SMU meet on the gridiron for the 22nd time overall and the sixth time as American Athletic Conference foes • WNAV 1430 AM / 99.9 FM (Annapolis) when they square off on ESPN2 on Saturday night (7:30 pm) at Ford Stadium in Dallas. The state and local authorities are • WJXL 1010 AM / 92.5 FM (Jacksonville, Fla.) allowing 25 percent capacity at SMU’s 32,000 seat stadium. • WGH 1310 AM / 100.9 FM / 97.3 HD2-3 (Norfolk, Va.) • Navy leads the all-time series 13-8, including a 4-1 mark against the Mustangs in AAC games. Navy’s only loss to SMU in • KWFN 97.3 FM (San Diego, Calif.) league play was a 31-30 overtime setback in the Mids’ last trip to Dallas (Sept. 22, 2018). Navy is 6-4 all-time against the • KHKA CBS Sports Radio 1500 AM (Honolulu, Hawai’i) Mustangs in Dallas and has won six of the last seven. The last three games in the series have been decided by a total of 11 • WFED 1500 AM (Washington, D.C.) points (43-40 Navy in 2017, 31-30 OT SMU in 2018 and 35-28 Navy in 2019). • WFED 104.5 FM (Western Fairfax / Loudon, Va.) • Since 2015, when Navy joined the American Athletic Conference, the Mids have compiled a 30-14 (.682) conference record • WFED 820 AM / 94.3 FM (Frederick, Md.) which is the third-best mark in the league behind Temple (31-12) and Memphis (31-12). • WBQH 1050 AM / 93.5 FM (Washington, D.C. / No. Virginia) • Navy enters the weekend with a 3-1 record in the AAC and alone in fourth place. The top-two teams will play in the American • Sirius Ch. 113 / XM Ch. 207 / Internet Ch. 967 Athletic Conference Championship game on Dec. 12 or Dec. 19. The Mids no longer control their own destiny in the race for the top two as Navy has already lost to one of the three undefeated teams (Houston) and does not play another (Cincinnati). LIVE STATS // VIDEO The Mids are slated to play undefeated Tulsa next Saturday. SMU and Memphis are tied for fifth place, 1/2 game behind Navy. Stats navystats.com • Navy started three different quarterbacks in its first three games of the season for the first time since 1992 - Jim Kubiak Video WatchESPN (Virginia), Brian Ellis (Boston College), Jason Van Matre (Rutgers). That 1992 team finished 1-10. • 13th-year Navy head coach Ken Niumatalolo earned his 100th-career victory when the Mids defeated Temple in Annapolis on NAVY SPORTS INFORMATION Oct. 10. He is the 24th active coach with 100-career wins and just the sixth active coach to achieve it at one school. Please 566 Brownson Road | Annapolis, Md. 21402 see page 12 of the notes for charts on where Niumatalolo stands nationally in wins among active coaches. Fax: 410-293-8954 | www.NavySports.com • Navy’s three wins this fall have been by a total of 9 points (defeated Tulane by 3, Temple by 2 and ECU by 4). It’s the first time each of Navy’s first three wins of the season were by 4 points or less since 1971 when Navy defeated Virginia 10-6, Duke Sr. Associate AD (Primary Contact) Scott Strasemeier 15-14 and Syracuse 17-14. Those three games were the 1971 team’s only wins of the season as it finished 3-8. Phone #s 410-293-8775 (o) / 443-336-9023 (c) • Navy is 42-27 (.609) in the Niumatalolo era in one-score games (8 points or less), including 3-0 in 2020. Forty-two percent of E-Mail [email protected] Navy’s games in the Niumatalolo era (69 of 164) have been decided by one possession. Assistant AD (Secondary Contact) Stacie Michaud • Navy has had 23 different players make their first-career start this year, which is the most in the country. Senior defensive Phone #s 410-293-8773 (o) / 410-212-3761 (c) end Jackson Perkins is the only player on the Navy defense to start all six games. The Mids have started four different nose E-Mail [email protected] guards and three different quarterbacks. • Navy’s last win over a top-25 team was last year, when the Mids knocked off #21 SMU 35-28. Niumatalolo has led Navy to five top-25 wins during his tenure, which are the second most in school history. Eddie Erdelatz beat 10 top-25 teams from 1950-58. SERIES VS. SMU STATISTICAL COMPARISON Games Played 21 Breaking it Down 2020 NCAA FBS TEAM RANKINGS (101 TEAMS) Overall Navy leads, 13-8 11-15-1930 L 7-20 ^ Baltimore, Md. in Annapolis, Md. Navy leads, 6-3 11-21-1931 L 6-13 Annapolis, Md. Navy SMU in Dallas, Texas Navy leads, 6-4 10-3-1959 L 7-20 Dallas, Texas Statistic Rk Avg Rk Avg at Neutral Site Series tied, 1-1 10-8-1960 W 26-7 $ Norfolk, Va. Rushing Offense 31 186.3 37 182.5 As AAC Opponents Navy leads, 4-1 10-11-1963 L 28-32 Dallas, Texas Passing Efficiency 33 146.86 23 155.67 Current Streak Navy, 1 game 9-24-1966 L 3-21 Dallas, Texas Passing Yds. / Comp 1 17.97 23 13.77 11-20-1993 L 13-42 Annapolis, Md. Total Offense 88 288.2 11 517.7 Inaugural Meeting 11-15-1930 // SMU 20-7 9-9-1995 W 33-2 Dallas, Texas Scoring Offense 86 19.3 21 37.7 Last Meeting 11-23-2019 // Navy 35-28 9-21-1996 W 19-17 Annapolis, Md.